Originally Posted by
adstockton
People who fly segment runs on those short hop sale fares will continue to do so no matter how many segments are required to get 1K. The segment change really hurts Northeast business travelers.
I fly one roundtrip per week for work (~40/year), on nonstop flights, plus ~10 leisure trips to get to 100 segments for the year. 50% of my flying is UA, 50% is Star (mostly AC and US). Nearly all short hops <750 miles. So far this year I have 100.5 EQS and 61k EQM. My average ticket price is easily upwards of $500 per roundtrip, I've probably bought 10 last minute tickets for >$1200. Without adding unnecessary connections (e.g. BOS-IAD-LGA(UA) instead of BOS-LGA(US), or ORD-IAD-LGA instead of ORD-LGA), there's no way I can make 120 EQS.
I think MP is a better program than AA (Star is much more convenient for me, flat-bed on international instead of wedgie seats in J, etc.), and I've enjoyed being a 1K and always gotten great service. I've never threatened to move before, but EXP is obviously more valuable than 1P. There's just no way I can make it to 1K with 120 segments.
@:-)This isn't "you took away 4 CR1s". This is "you took away my ability to reach 1K, but on your competitor I can still reach EXP"@:-)
I will miss E+, but I can't keep flying UA if I don't make it to 1K and get SWUs and 1K1Call.
This is what I honestly don't understand: It's one thing to stick it to low-revenue flyers such as myself. It's
another thing entirely to take someone flying 100 +/- expensive segments and tell them that
their benefits are being reduced but that those who previously would have gotten nothing for flying 75K/90 EQM/EQS, their benefits are going to be increased. Why do this?
